Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-08-12

law who was sitting by his side was killed
passenger named Ogden, of Graymont,
this state, was one of the three only surviv-
ers among those in the third coach into
which the fourth car was telescoped He
was sitting on the wood box at the time and
can remember nothing of what occurred E.
l. Cramp, of Peoria, was another of the for
tunate trio who escaped His own injuries
were comparatively trifiing, but a lady
named Kelly, of Peoria, who sat in the same
seat with him had her neck broken
AArchie Craswell, of Kankakee, was sitting
with his wife and child in one of the chair
cars. The mother occupied the half seat at
the end of the car and was killed The babe
was thrown from her arms over four seats
and into the lap of woman The babe was
uninjured, and the father, who was franti-
cally searching for it, after having discovered
that his wife had persisted, finally found the
babe asleep on blanket under willow tree.
MEN WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE.
A number of eve witnesses declare that two
men shot themselves after being taken from
the wreck One of these had his legs crushed
and had lost his wife aid daughter. When
informed of his double bereavement he
from his pocket and shot himself
through the head The other man, also bad
" injured begged piteously for water, and
in the defirium of his sufferings took his life
with revolver The names of these men
could not be learned The eyewitness are
positive that the story is true One of the
rescuers, farmer named Jackson, declared
that he saw the pistol in the unfortunates
hand and heard the report.
SUPERINTENDENT ARMsTRoNs'S STATEMENT
Superintendent Armstrong, who, with his
friends, so providentially escaped from the
splintered private car, says that there were
about Cps pa sengers on the train, about 100
being ladies, and forty or fifty children
OF these 900 were in the sleepers and unhurt
About seventy five are dead, and the sur
geons estimate that twenty five more will
die. At least 200 are injured, many of them
so seriously that the estimated number of
eventual deaths may be largely increased
The total
NUMBER OF FATALITIES.
can scarcely fail to exceed 100 within the
next few days. Forty -four of the injured
were taken to Piper City, where two of them
are reported dead About dozen of the
wounded were taken to farmhouses near by
and many of the less seriously hurt returned
to Peoria or were taken to other towns. For
these reasons it is impossible to do more than
estimate the number OF injured
About twenty-five bodies had not been
identified at 10 o'clock Thursday night
Eight of those lay i'll the little station at
Chatsworth, and on each arrival of fearful
inquirers man takes lantern and enters
the dead room To reach the telegraph offices
reporters and railway men must step over
these dead bodies, picking their way carefully
in the darkness
LOOKING FOR LOVED ONES
A heavy-aden special train from Peoria ar.
rived in the afternoon, carrying 100 anxious
inquirers after friends and relatives. As the
psople-womeu and men and boys-walked
among the CHASTITY objects laid out in loue
rows IN the RAILWAY station, in a vacant store
room and in school house, lifting bloody
sheet after sheet, and gazing upon face after
face that had been cut, and in some cases
disfiglIred almost beyond recognition, the
the incidents were pitiful in the extreme.
One young man from Peoria tainted on find
ing the body of his mother, which he had
been able to recognize by her spectacles, and
another temporarily lost his reason when the
almost unacceptable remains of his two
sisters were pointed out to him.